Electrical Engineering Lead

Bridge Neurotech, Inc.; Redwood City (CA); On-site; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Excellent medical benefits

401(k) matching 6%

Job summary

Bridge Neurotech, Inc. seeks an Electronics Lead to own the architecture and delivery of the company’s custom ultrasound hardware electronics.

You will drive system partitioning, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout oversight, bring-up, and validation for high-speed multi-rail systems. You’ll interface with ASICs, write Python for bring-up and test automation, and collaborate with embedded systems.

Qualifications

• 6+ years hands-on board-level design experience through production or production-equivalent builds.
• Experience with high-speed digital board design: multi-gigabit links, impedance control, SI/PI analysis.
• Design of power delivery systems: switching regulators, multi-rail architectures, sequencing, thermal management.
• Familiarity with ASICs and interfacing at register level.
• Ability to write embedded Python for bring-up and test automation.
• Experience with consumer electronics or high-volume products prioritizing manufacturability.

Responsibilities

• Own end-to-end electronics architecture for Bridge’s imaging hardware.
• Design and deliver boards with multi-gigabit serial links, ensuring SI, impedance, and layout quality.
• Architect watts-class power delivery with multi-rail regulation and thermal management.
• Interface with ultrasound ASICs and analog front-ends, driving vendor relationships.
• Co-define hardware/software boundary with Embedded Systems Lead; write firmware as needed.
• Build Python-based bring-up, characterization, and automated test tooling for each revision.
• Lead board bring-up, debugging, vendor management, and design reviews.
• Mentor the R&D Engineer and review schematics, layouts, and test methodology.
• Lay the documentation and design-control groundwork for regulated environment development.

Skills

Electrical engineering expertise

Board-level design

High-speed digital design

Signal integrity analysis

Python scripting

Firmware development

Vendor management

Power electronics

ASIC interfacing

Embedded systems collaboration

Education

Electrical Engineering degree

Tools

LVDS

JESD204

PCIe/USB 3.x SerDes

Job description

About Bridge Neurotech

Bridge Neurotech is building a non-invasive functional ultrasound imaging (fUSI) platform with AI-based neural decoding for brain-computer interface applications. We are a seed-stage neurotechnology company developing technology that has the potential to transform how we interact with the human brain.

About the role

We are looking for an Electrical Engineering Lead to own the architecture strategy and delivery of the electronic systems behind Bridge’s custom ultrasound hardware: from system partitioning and component selection through schematic, layout, bring-up, and validated hardware.

Two design challenges sit at the center of this role. The first is high-speed I/O: moving raw acquisition data off the front-end over multi-gigabit-per-second links, with a focus on designing for signal integrity, clocking, and proper layout. The second is power delivery: multi-rail systems operating at watts of power, designed for efficiency and thermal headroom.

You will interface with ASICs at register level, write Python daily for bring-up and test automation, and know enough firmware to collaborate efficiently with our embedded systems team.

What you’ll do

• Own the end-to-end electronics architecture of Bridge’s custom imaging hardware: system partitioning, component selection, schematic capture, PCB layout oversight, bring-up, and design validation.

• Design and deliver boards with multi-gigabit-per-second serial links (e.g., LVDS, JESD204, PCIe/USB 3.x-class SerDes), owning signal integrity, impedance control, clocking, and high-speed layout.

• Architect watts-class power delivery: multi-rail regulation, sequencing, efficiency, thermal design, and noise isolation for sensitive analog acquisition circuitry.

• Evaluate, select, and integrate ultrasound transmit/receive ASICs and analog front-ends: own the electrical interface to custom silicon and drive vendor relationships.

• Co-define the hardware/software boundary with the Embedded Systems Lead: digital interface definition, control plane, and data path. Write firmware where it accelerates bring-up.

• Build Python-based bring-up, characterization, and automated test tooling for every board revision.

• Lead board bring-up, debug, and failure analysis; manage PCB fabrication and assembly vendors and drive design reviews.

• Mentor the R&D Engineer, reviewing their schematics, layouts, and test methodology.

• Lay the documentation and design-control groundwork for eventual development in a regulated environment.

Who you are

Required

• Degree in electrical engineering or related field, with 6+ years of hands-on board-level design experience and multiple custom boards taken through production or production-equivalent builds.

• Extended experience with high-speed digital board design: multi-gigabit-per-second serial links, controlled-impedance routing, and signal/power integrity analysis.

• Demonstrated design of power delivery systems operating at watts of power: switching regulators, multi-rail architectures, sequencing, and thermal management.

• Working understanding of ASICs and how to interface with them: register-level configuration, electrical integration of custom silicon or analog front-ends, and informed dialogue with silicon vendors.

• Enough firmware fluency to write some embedded code yourself and work effectively day-to-day with an embedded systems engineer.

• Good command of Python for bring-up scripts, automated test, and data analysis.

• Experience from consumer electronics or other high-volume consumer products, where cost, manufacturability, and iteration speed were real constraints.

Nice to have

• Familiarity with hardware design in regulated environments (e.g., IEC 60601, design controls, medical or similar).

• Prior work on ultrasound, imaging, or other high-channel-count data acquisition front-ends, including AFE/ADC characterization.

• FPGA familiarity, enough to reason about the interface between your boards and programmable logic.

• EMC/EMI pre-compliance and debug experience.

• Early-stage startup experience where you set the hardware roadmap yourself.

What we offer

• The opportunity to shape a role and a team from the earliest stages.

• Direct collaboration with leading clinicians and neuroscientists at top-tier academic institutions.

• Excellent medical benefits and a 6% match 401(k).

Bridge Neurotech is an equal opportunity employer. We encourage candidates of all backgrounds to apply.